Geography
Geographically the district is inside the Eifel hill chain. This land is hardly suitable for agriculture, and therefore in historical times the region was rather poor. The only wealth was the iron ore, but today the many forests there make the area interesting for tourists.
Read more about this topic: Euskirchen (district)
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